AI Is Everywhere—But Security Teams Are Still Catching Up

Insights from 96 organizations on the state of AI security in the cloud...

How to Build a Lean Security Model: 5 Lessons from River Island

In today’s security landscape, budgets are tight, attack surfaces are sprawling, and new threats emerge daily. Maintaining a strong security posture under these circumstances without a large team or budget can be a real challenge. Yet lean security models are not only possible - they can be highl...

Securing Open RAN: a Survey of Cryptographic Challenges and Emerging Solutions for 5G

The advent of Open Radio Access Networks O-RAN introduces modularity and flexibility into 5G deployments but also surfaces novel security challenges across disaggregated interfaces. This literature review synthesizes recent research across thirteen academic and industry sources, examining...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Demystifying Cloud Detection & Response – The Future of SOC and MDR

Cloud adoption has fundamentally reshaped security operations, bringing flexibility and scalability, but also complexity. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Rapid7’s product leaders discussed how today’s SOC and MDR capabilities must evolve to keep up. Hosted...

The Hidden Threat in Your Stack: Why Non-Human Identity Management is the Next Cybersecurity Frontier

Modern enterprise networks are highly complex environments that rely on hundreds of apps and infrastructure services. These systems need to interact securely and efficiently without constant human oversight, which is where non-human identities NHIs come in. NHIs — including application secrets, A...

SoK: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models

Large language model LLM unlearning has become a critical topic in machine learning, aiming to eliminate the influence of specific training data or knowledge without retraining the model from scratch. A variety of techniques have been proposed, including Gradient Ascent, model editing, and...

5 Things Security Leaders Need to Know About Agentic AI

From writing assistance to intelligent summarization, generative AI has already transformed the way businesses work. But we’re now entering a new phase where AI doesn’t just generate content, but takes independent action on our behalf. This next evolution is called ‘agentic AI’, and it’s moving...

SoK: Are Watermarks in LLMs Ready for Deployment?

Large Language Models LLMs have transformed natural language processing, demonstrating impressive capabilities across diverse tasks. However, deploying these models introduces critical risks related to intellectual property violations and potential misuse, particularly as adversaries can imitate...

Seven Security Challenges That Must Be Solved in Cross-Domain Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Large language models LLMs are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership. Yet, cross-domain...

You're Not Ready

Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven't prepared for...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Risk Revolution – Proactive Strategies for Exposure Management

At the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, a standout session titled Risk Revolution brought together Rapid7 product leaders and ESG analyst Tyler Shields to unpack the evolution of exposure management — and how organizations can build more context-driven, proactive risk strategies...

Why Quiet Expertise No Longer Wins Cybersecurity Clients

There's a graveyard of brilliant cybersecurity companies that no one has ever heard of. These firms had incredible…...

A Hitchhiker'S Guide to Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies: a Survey on Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Auditability

Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies CBDCs are reshaping the monetary landscape, offering transparency and efficiency while raising critical concerns about user privacy and regulatory compliance. This survey provides a comprehensive and technically grounded overview of...

EarthOL: a Proof-Of-Human-Contribution Consensus Protocol -- Addressing Fundamental Challenges in Decentralized Value Assessment with Enhanced Verification and Security Mechanisms

This paper introduces EarthOL, a novel consensus protocol that attempts to replace computational waste in blockchain systems with verifiable human contributions within bounded domains. While recognizing the fundamental impossibility of universal value assessment, we propose a domain-restricted...

Exploit for Link Following in Microsoft

CVE-2025-47181 Concept: Microsoft Edge Link Following Privileg...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2025-30400 Concept: Windows DWM Use-After-Free UAF P...

Large Language Models in the IoT Ecosystem -- a Survey on Security Challenges and Applications

The Internet of Things IoT and Large Language Models LLMs have been two major emerging players in the information technology era. Although there has been significant coverage of their individual capabilities, our literature survey sheds some light on the integration and interaction of LLMs and Io...

What the Take Command 2025 Survey Tells Us About the State of Security

The Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit wasn’t just about sharing insights, it was about listening. After the live sessions wrapped, we surveyed attendees to understand where their security programs stand today, what challenges they’re facing, and what they found most valuable during t...

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application by Dr. Mark Pollack, Christian Tsolov, and Josh Long Hi, Spring fans! Spring AI is live on the Spring Initializr and everywhere fine bytes might be had. Ask your doctor if AI is right for you! It's an amazing time to be a Java and Spring developer. There's nev...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Zero-Day Exploits, Insider Threats, APT Targeting, Botnets and More

Cybersecurity leaders aren't just dealing with attacks—they're also protecting trust, keeping systems running, and maintaining their organization's reputation. This week's developments highlight a bigger issue: as we rely more on digital tools, hidden weaknesses can quietly grow. Just fixing...